Michael Lonsdale
Acting
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French-British actor and author who appeared in over 180 films and television shows. He is often known in the English-speaking world for his roles as the villain Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, deputy police commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Abbot in The Name of the Rose (1986) and Dupont d'Ivry in The Remains of the Day (1993). Lonsdale was born in Paris, the natural son of British Army officer Edward Lonsdale Crouch and Simone Calderon (née Béraud). He was brought up initially on the island of Jersey, then in London from 1935, and later, during the Second World War, in Casablanca, Morocco. He returned to Paris to study painting in 1947, but was drawn into the world of acting instead, first appearing on stage at the age of 24. Lonsdale was bilingual, and appeared in both English-language and French-language productions. He appeared in a starring role with Roger Moore in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. and with Sean Connery, in the 1986 film The Name of the Rose. He would later appear in Munich (2005), a film that also starred another Bond, Daniel Craig. In February 2011, he won a César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Of Gods and Men. Lonsdale was also the author of ten books. A practising Roman Catholic, he was close to the Emmanuel Community. In his 2016 memoir Le Dictionnaire de Ma Vie, Lonsdale revealed he had fallen for Delphine Seyrig, having met her as a student in Tania Balachova's acting classes at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1947. He wrote that "it was her or nothing", which was why he never married. Lonsdale died in Paris on 21 September 2020, aged 89. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Lonsdale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Day of the Jackal
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Age 41 (now 89)
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
as Self (archive footage)
Age 91 (now 89)
Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
as Narrator
Age 87 (now 89)
The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
as Self
Age 85 (now 89)
Jean-Marie Serreau, découvreur de théâtres
as Self
Age 84 (now 89)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
as (voice)
Age 83 (now 89)
Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
as Narrateur
Age 80 (now 89)
To Each His Own Cinema
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")
Age 76 (now 89)
Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
as Bartleby (voice)
Age 76 (now 89)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
as Professor Stangerson
Age 74 (now 89)
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
as Stangerson
Age 72 (now 89)
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
as Self
Age 69 (now 89)
Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein
as Narrator (voice)
Age 68 (now 89)
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
as Cammerschulze
Age 57 (now 89)
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
as Self
Age 55 (now 89)
The Games of Countess Dolingen
as Bertrand Haines-Pearson
Age 50 (now 89)
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
Aurais dû faire gaffe... le choc est terrible
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
as The Vice Consul of Lahore
Age 45 (now 89)
The Pink Telephone
as M. Morrison, président de la Fielding
Age 44 (now 89)
Special Section
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieur
Age 43 (now 89)
The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
as Le reporter TV / Ponce Pilate
Age 42 (now 89)
Successive Slidings of Pleasure
as The Judge
Age 42 (now 89)
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
as Stéphane
Age 42 (now 89)
The Day of the Jackal
as Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel
Age 41 (now 89)
Papa, the Lil' Boats
as Hippolyte the brother of Marylène
Age 39 (now 89)
Le revolver et la rose
as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri Korkesky
Age 39 (now 89)
The Man in the Buick
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.
Age 36 (now 89)
The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
as L'Avocat de la Défense
Age 36 (now 89)
Order of the Daisy
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voice)
Age 35 (now 89)
Your Money or Your Life
as Speaker at the Shy People's Club
Age 34 (now 89)
Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
as Le Grand Loustalot
Age 77 (now 89)
La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
as Smith
Age 43 (now 89)
Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Michel Lonsdale, Майкл Лонсдейл, Мишель Лонсдаль, Майкл Лонсдаль
IMDB
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